An Invitation to African Breathwork Trainers from the GIC

GIC 2008 is pleased to be promoting the work of Breathwork Trainers and outreach workers Daniel Marungu and Vincent Odhiambo Oloo of the TIBA Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.

The GIC organising team are offering their Conference passes free of charge if they can raise the money needed to travel here. Any money raised over the initial costs will be donated to the TIBA outreach centre in Nairobi.

To make a donation

Please specify when you are booking your place with the GIC Booking Team that you would also like to contribute to the ‘Kenyan Breathworkers Appeal’. The GIC Booking Team will take your donation and add it to the total. Thank you for supporting Daniel and Vincent!

Natalia Brown, GIC Organiser 2008

Transformational Breathwork Trainer: Vincent Odhiambo Oloo, Nairobi, Kenya

“My name is Vincent Odhiambo Oloo.  I am 27 years old, married to Ruth Wanjiru and blessed with two children, Lucy, aged four and Peter, two. For five years, we have been working with Daniel Marungu on the Youth Education Project, based in Kiberia, which is a deprived district of Nairobi. We are working with destitute children street children and families in crisis.  The project undertakes rehabilitation work;   it has a nursery and supports children in going to school.  It also has a women's project that raises money by making high-quality crafts, and a communal farming project that grows maize and vegetables. Due to widespread bereavement from AIDS, many of the children are left without a main carer or family provider so the project is an important lifeline to them. I am hoping that we can raise the money to travel to the UK to share with you the importance of Breathwork in our project in Africa” 

Transformational Breathwork Trainer: Daniel Marungu, Nairobi, Kenya

“My name's Daniel Marungu.  I am 27 and married to Lillian Omwenga. My child Benta is 1 year 3 months.  Following the loss of my father in 1998 and my mother four years later, I became the head of my whole family. Life was very difficult, and I lost the sense of being alive.  I was obliged to go to Nairobi to seek work where I had the good fortune to meet Marco de Jager, a Dutch Trainer, who introduced me to Judith Kravitz’s Transformational Breathwork and also Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).  I felt I had offloaded a heavy burden in my life once I started to work with these tools.  I now feel called to help others whose lives are as challenged as mine was.”

While continuing to work for the Youth Education Project, we have been guided to set up our own Breathwork organisation in Africa to focus and develop the work which we learnt from Marco de Jager and others. In addition to our initial training in Nairobi, we have since been sponsored by the Transformational Breath Foundation and Inside Out, Holland to undertake a Level V course in Holland to become Breathwork Trainers. Also, we are proud to say that with funding from our friends in Holland, we have received help to set up our project in Africa.  We feel that Transformational Breathing and related modalities are very important tools for people who have become dislocated from themselves by the challenges they face.  We have registered our project as a non-governmental organisation and given it the name of the 'TIBA Africa Foundation’.  TIBA is an acronym of 'The Inner Being Alive' and in Swahili it means 'Heal Africa'.  This is exactly what we want to do for our homeland.  We want other people to learn, as we did, that they already have all it takes to improve their own lives within them.

We are grateful for the invitation from the GIC organisers, and very much hope that we may be able to attend the Global Inspiration Conference in the UK in 2008, so that we can learn more from our brothers and sisters from across the world.  Also, we would like to share with you something of the essence and importance of Breathwork to Africa.  We look forward to meeting you so that you can see, feel and hear about what we are doing in Africa.

Thank you and be blessed.

Daniel & Vincent,

January 2008

Emergency shelters, Kenyan conflict, 2007

Marco & Jacquelien de Jager

“In a Transformational Breathing seminar in Holland we heard about people in Kenya who wanted to meet international trainers to do personal development work with them.

We were excited about it, so we went with our kids to Nairobi and started working for free with groups and individual people in the deprived areas. After two years we started the first TB seminar in Nairobi and from that moment it developed very well.

Now is the point that there is a new organization through Vincent and Daniel, TIBA AFRICA Foundation, which will take over the TB work and offer an independent foundation for people throughout Africa.

Our targets is to collect donations to support TIBA so they can continue to develop, build up good networks in Kenya and ultimately become independent; at this moment they need financial support to realize this goal. We feel that it is most important that the organisation gets a good structured foundation, and then they can do next steps.

So the money we raise will be used to support this project. We are excited that the Global Inspiration Conference may be able to raise the profile of the important work that these people are doing in healing Kenya through sponsoring Daniel and Vincent to attend the conference– any support for Kenya at this time would be really great!”

Volunteers from TIBA Africa Foundation  

With love,

Marco and Jacquelien de Jager, TB Trainers, Holland